Tightening Up Becomes More Severe In Coal Region
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania June 9 The tightening up process since the four week old coal strike deepens as railroaders refuse to handle trains carrying deputies non union men and coal. Lehigh Valley lines refuse soft coal and Kingston DL and W workers protest hauling soft coal while union men at Nanticoke organize as special policemen and the burgess prepares to swear them in. Some Pittston engineers abstain from work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesbarre
Freeland Yesterdvy
Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad
Lehigh Valley Company
Kingston
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Susquehanna Coal Company
Nanticoke
Smallpox Case at Gershom Avenue Seized Child Hospitalized
A 16 month old baby Eva Pintal of 34 Ward Street and a 16 month old child at 42 Gershom Avenue contracted smallpox. Authorities moved the infant and mother to the contagious hospital Sunday with the patient kept under careful watch due to insanity concerns. A watchman was posted outside the Gershom Avenue residence to restrict access while doctors treat and monitor other family members as suspects. The first smallpox case at this address highlights the disease outbreak in the area.
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Arsene Gervais
Gershom Avenue
Gervais
Contagious Hospital
Eva Pintal
Ward Street
Livingston
Smallpox Hospital
Hazleton Mines Face Flood Risks and Strike Tensions
Hazleton workers report firemen shortages at Hazel Brook and Coxe's Stockton colliery forcing partial flooding and halted operations. Mine staff permit haulage of coal to plants from abandoned banks. Citizens protest deputies at York town colliery while Coxe Bros appeals to Sheriff Gombert for protection of non union workers traveling to Drifton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
J. S. Wentz & Co
Hazel Brook
Coxe
Stockton
Mauch Chunk
Yorktown
Gombert
Carbon County
Jacobs
Coxe Bros. & Co
Drifton
Local Firemen Muster Plans Set For Old Home Week
A joint committee of the Veteran Firemen's League and Lowell local units met to finalize arrangements for the Old Home Week muster. Key leaders from Gen. Butler Veterans and Old Vets were chosen to form the local body, with W. H. Hathaway and J. H. Walker among officials. The route and souvenir options were discussed, with decisions contingent on league approval.
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Veteran Firemen’s League
New England
Casey
Alderman Carmichael
Gen. Butler
Lowell
W. H. Hathaway
Hyde Park
W. A. Green
South Braintree
George Huey
Everett
City Electrician
B. Frank Moody
Lynn
Charles O. Bent
South Gardiner
Torrent
League
General Butlers
Old Vets
J. H. Walker
L. C. Panton
F. Lavery
Gen. Butlers
Hosmer
Denis Wholey
James E. Hill
W. W. Murphy
Fire in Saratoga destroys Arcade Building and theatres
A June 9 Saratoga blaze in the Arcade Building on Broadway killed Mrs. Mabie and left one person dead, one fatally injured, and several others seriously hurt with several missing. The fire, which damaged the Shackleford and Theatre Saratoga, threatened a wider conflagration but was halted by firefighters by 5:25 a.m. Insurance is estimated at 175,000 with property loss around 300,000.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Shadwick
Hart
Owens
M. C. Hart
Ahern
David Howland
Morris
Miss Morris
Ida Foster
Mabie
Arcade
Broadway
Shackleford
Citizens National Bank
Banking Institution
Saratogan
Western Union Telegraph Company
Saratoga and Boston Telegraph Company
Municipal Telegraph and Stock Company
Prudential Insurance
The
Post Office
Saratoga County Treasurer’s Office
Theatre
Arbitration plan aims to curb Chicago packing strikes
Chicago on June 9 reports employers backing a joint arbitration board to settle disputes with the National Teamsters unions. Eight employer associations support the move and Albert Young tacitly approves. Three delegates from each group will meet to form a seven member committee to draft procedures for resolving serious differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Packing House Teamsters
National Teamsters Union
Albert Young
Teamsters
Picnic party struck by trolley car in Nashville
Nashville June 9 A tally-ho returning party was hit by a trolley car at 10 30 last night. Four persons are seriously injured including Miss Henlin with chest and back injuries possibly internal and Miss Lillian Rosenswig with a broken collar bone and other injuries. Goldie Ingendrich also with broken collar bone and bruises. Sidney Jonas sustains a broken collar bone.
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Nashville
Tenn
Henlin
Lillian Rosenswig
Goldie Ingendrich
Sidney Jonas
Wrestler Romulus Tops Bull in Mexican Plaza Fight
A bull fight in the Plaza de Toros of Nevada Mexico featured Romulus, a renowned Mexican wrestler, who expertly grappled the bull and threw it on his first attempt. One bull was killed. no horses were harmed in the event.
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Laredo
Tex
Plaza de Toros
Nevada
Mex
Romulus
Mother’s Cure Stirs Hope with Cherry Pectoral Claim
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is touted by D P Jolly of Avoca New York as a cure for long standing consumption after trials described as speedy. The ad lists prices 25c 50c and 1 00 and notes J C Ayer Co Lewell Massachusetts as the makers.
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Ayer
D. P. Jolly
Avoca, N. Y
J.C. Ayer CO
Lewell, Mass
Strike Leaders Ease Tense Hazleton Street Clash
In Freeland, Pa on June 9, Supt Kudlick of Coxe Bros. was attacked by women but unharmed as about 800 strikers gathered at Ebervale and 100 at Jeddo to stop non union men from reaching North Side collieries. Sheriff Jacobs, eight officers and District Secretary Gallagher moved to prevent demonstrations. Gallagher persuaded strikers to disperse at Ebervale and Jeddo, and no strikers remained when the sheriff’s party arrived. A Pardee & Co issued a statement that Cranberry colliery would not restart under current conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
Kudlick
Coxe Bros. & Co
Freeland
Ebervale
Jeddo
North Side
Jacobs
Gallagher
A. Pardee & Co
Cranberry
Mitchell heads to New York to meet Wright on labor dispute
Wilkesbarre, June 9. President Mitchell leaves for New York to meet Carroll D. Wright, U S labor commissioner, at the Manhattan hotel. Wright may represent Roosevelt in the anthracite strike talks, with Wright and Senator Hanna said to have recent discussions on the dispute. Mitchell says he does not know Wright’s purpose and that interference is unlikely. The trip aims to gain official insight into the causes of the strike.
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Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
Lehigh Valley Railroad
New York
Carroll D. Wright
United States Commissioner of Labor
Manhattan Hotel
Wright
Roosevelt
Washington
Hanna
Commissioner of Labor
Danish diplomats ponder Paris legation move
Copenhagen reports minister Constantin Brun may take leave to pursue the Paris post with the Danish government debating his stay in Washington and designating P. L. De Loeuvenser for Paris while J. H. De Hegermann-Lindencrone shifts to Berlin at summer's end.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Constantin Brun
United States
M. Brun
Paris
Washington
P. L. BE. de Loevencern
St. Petersburg
J. H. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
Berlin
Twenty rescued after Long Island Sound yacht gale
Twenty people aboard Charles E. Clark's yacht were rescued by a passing steamer after the rudder broke and the vessel drifted in a gale. They landed at Bay Side, Long Island, safe at home in the early hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Long Island Sound
Charles E. Clark
Bronx
Bay Side
L. I
Paducah Man in Cage Traveled to Choctaw Nation
J J Pike of Ohio county travels with his wife and children in a wagon cage to the Choctaw nation to prevent self harm or harm to others. A Civil War head wound causes convulsions. he has been blind for seven years. They expect to reach Indian territory next fall.
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Paducah
J. J. Pike
Ohio County
Pike
Indian Territory
Canada Cuts Coffee Duties From Mexico
Mexico City June 9 the department of foreign relations says the Mexican consul general in Canada reports the Canadian government has conceded a substantial reduction of duties on Mexican coffee imported. Coffees were 10 cents a sack and are now one cent. The move signals a desire to promote direct trade with Mexico.
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Mexico City
Mex
Department of Foreign Relations
Canada
British schooner Annie Laurie in peril off New England coast
At Chatham on June 9 a heavy blow left the British schooner Annie Laurie stranded on Shovelful Shoal near the Wa dena wreck. With life saving crews disbanded, Monomoy Point fishermen and Keeper Ellis seek a wrecking crew to assist. The lumber laden vessel may jettison cargo and be hauled off, while the captain remains aboard with his crew. The Annie Laurie, likely the Annie Laura of St John, is 99 tons and built in 1891.
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Chatham
Annie Laurie
St. John
N. B
Providence
R. I
Wadena
Mallowes
Laurie
Monomoy Point
Ellis
Monomoy
Annie Laura
Robert T. Palmer
Douglas Harbor
Summer squall endangers harbor pleasure crafts
Boston reports a water front squall between 7 and 8 pm sent 20 plus people missing by 7 this morning. Police hunt for a ten man naphta launch returning from Paddock's island and eight others in a dory from East Boston with no word yet. Several teamsters in a small craft also vanished, keeping investigators busy with uncertain outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Count de Rochambeau party visits Chicago on quiet Sunday
Count de Rochambeau and party spend a calm day in Chicago visiting the National Bank to view safes and drills, lunching at Saddle and Cycle Club with society members, then returning to their hotel for rest before departing for New York. Count de Lafayette dines with Charles Deering in Evanston.
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Chicago
Count de Rochambeau
Chicago National Bank
Fire Department
Honore Palmer
Countess de Rochambeau
Count de Lafayette
Chas. Deering
Evanston
New York
Water drought grips Hong Kong as city dries
The City of Pekin reports Hong Kong suffers a water famine with wells drained and tugs shuttling between the city and the mainland. Officials say the distress hit the Chinese hardest as thousands of coolies queued for scarce water at public fountains.
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Hong Kong
San Francisco
Cal
Pacific Mail
City of
Mysterious Steam Columns Rise From Mount Rainier
In Tacoma on June 9 a snowmelt event near Mount Rainier produced two visible steam columns rising from the summit. Explanations cite solar melting, wind-driven snow, and other theories, but none fully satisfy observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
Mount Ranier
Boy 13 Injured By Falling Barn Door Incident
Vincent Hutton, 13, son of Mr and Mrs James Hutton of Humphrey Street, suffered broken thighs when a barn door fell during a Sunday playtime in Beacon Street. A truck was moved by other boys causing the door to detach as they tried to adjust it.
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Vincent Hutton
James Hutton
Humphrey Street
Beacon Street
Manager of Cleveland Theatre Endorses Father John’s Medicine
J. M. Ward, manager of the Cleveland Theatre, reports his wife’s health improving and gaining flesh after taking Father John’s Medicine. He says she had been run down with a weak stomach for two years. The note claims the remedy is not a patent medicine or containing dangerous drugs or weakening stimulants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
J. M. Ward
Cleveland Theatre
Cleveland
Long Police Court Grist Before Judge Hadley
In Lowell this morning a crowded police court docket featured drunkenness cases, suspensions, and probation. Groleau admitted drunkenness but denied stealing five dollars. Summers, Grimes, Dunham, and others faced sentences or probation. Several defendants received suspended jail terms or fines, with ministers of justice detailing past records and future behavior, while some cases were continued or transferred to probation.
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Lowell
Groleau
Hadley
Ramsey
Gregory O'Connell
Gregory
William Summers
Minstrels
Savage
Summers
Owen W. Grimes
John FE
Dunham
Teague
Merrimack Street
Lawrence
Lebanon
Nashua
American Express Company
Express Company
Tom
Frederic E. Pettis
Charles 8. Shepard
Henry Wallace
Mary McGourty
James J. Scanlon
Middlesex Street
Briggs
Mary Campbell
Scanlon
Joseph A. Bellou
Nelson B. Bordeleau
Edward Shanley
Frank Donlea
Joseph Gyball
William F. Meade
Patrick J. Hoar
State Farm
John J. Howe
Edward Gagnon
Elizabeth Hall
Joseph A. Hayden
Almond Cunningham
Union National bank moves operations to Marshall store
Following the merger of three national banks into Union National bank, operations were moved to the adjacent Marshall, florist, space to allow renovations in the old Merchants bank building. Vaults remain in place while money and books are shifted nightly. the three month restoration aims to create a premier banking space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union National Bank
Merchants Bank
Consolidated Bank
Marshall
Union Bank
Marshall Store
Pope Pleased by Roosevelt Gift of Works Mosaics from Vatican
Despatch from Rome reports the Pope delighted with President Roosevelts gift of a complete set of his works and ordered mosaics of St Peter and the Vatican to be sent to the President with thanks. The mosaics, crafted at Vatican workshops, are described as magnificent specimens of art.
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London
Pall Mall Gazette
Rome
Roosevelt
St. Peter's
The
Vatican
Y. W. C. A. Bible Class Moves If Cold Weather
The Monday night Bible class will meet at 57 Nineteenth street tonight unless too cold, in which case it will be held in the rooms as usual.
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Nineteenth Street
Police investigate stone assault on William Street resident
Sunday police looked into a report that a Polish resident was struck with a paving stone thrown from a window on William Street. The complainant suffered a bad facial wound, but no evidence tied the men held on suspicion to the assault and they were released.
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William Street
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Long Police Court
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Pope
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